New Doc Features Former Khmer Rouge talk about massacres

[Frank W. Baker]

For more than three decades, Cambodian villages have been home to silent killers: Former Khmer Rouge commanders who slit the throats of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of victims before dumping their bodies into shallow graves. Filmmaker Thet Sambath spent 10 years combing the countryside trying to find those who carried out massacres so they —together with the genocidal regime's ideological leader, Nuon Chea —could reveal the truth about one of the 20th century's darkest chapters.Their stories are told in the groundbreaking documentary "Enemies of the People," which is playing in limited release in the United States, with more theaters to be added each week into the
fall, its distributor says.